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Old Fri Jan 28, 2011, 03:16pm
JRutledge JRutledge is offline
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Originally Posted by Robert Goodman View Post
Is there really any such thing as a great referee? AFAICT it's not like, say, a great player. The NFL's top official is probably just someone who consistently, over a long period, has shown a teeny, tiny edge over the next best, and the top 10 of them have probably only a slight edge over the next 10, and so on. Am I right about this, or is there actually something that makes a star official?
If you are far and away better than your peers or in a league you work. That classification is purely subjective like who is a better player is and why they are better. But of course there can and are great officials out there. That does not mean they are perfect or never make mistakes.

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